Sentences with phrase «were caught flat»

The same rating companies that were caught flat - footed by the downturn in the mortgage market during the global financial crisis that ended in 2009 may be underestimating the threat of climate change to coastal communities.

The politicians were caught flat - footed — but for a sports game developer it was a tap - in to do the permutations for the Premier League

And they were caught flat - footed.

We were caught flat - footed.

Japan's carmakers were caught flat - footed by the minivan boom in the 1980s, and it took them years to catch up with competitive vehicles.

The bill's advocates were caught flat - footed by the legislative maneuver.

The U.S. auto industry has been caught flat - footed before.

Without question, while B2B Marketing is focused on developing its new prominence in the early stages of the buying cycle via content strategy and content marketing, B2B Sales is caught flat - footed on how to adapt to changing buyer behaviors.

In recent years, a number of companies have been caught flat - footed by this very situation.

Otamendi was caught flat - footed on the Raffael goal, putting a damper on an otherwise okay performance.

How many times is he caught flat - footed in the wake of anyone with even moderate pace.

The Bayern Munich defender wasn't the only guilty party, but a player of his experience was caught flat - footed too often in the opening exchanges.

Like many farmers, she was caught flat - footed by the grant, and didn't have a lot of produce to offer.

Likewise, there are women who are surprised when their husbands decide to leave, but what I am talking about here is that not - so - small group of guys who are caught flat footed by their wives sudden and seemingly unexplained departure.

For a couple of Tories hailed by cheerleaders as political titans, George Osborne and David Cameron have the knack of being caught flat - footed.

In 2014, Cuomo underestimated Teachout and was caught flat - footed by her relative success.

But the Working Families Party — which got $ 24,500 from Schneiderman — was caught flat - footed when The Post asked what it planned to do with the tainted money.

«As we have seen from recent experience in Europe, there are tremendous costs, both for refugees and their hosts, when we are caught flat footed.

Companies like Activision, EA and Capcom have been caught flat footed.

It looks like Capcom, like many publishers, have been caught flat footed on the Switch.

This explains a lot of why EA (and many other publishers) have been caught flat footed by the Switch which has been an even bigger success than anyone could have predicted.

«It's hard to argue that Common Core proponents haven't been caught flat - footed,» said Andrew Rotherham, a co-founder of Bellwether Education, a consulting firm that has worked for groups backing the standards.

Yet, when it comes to educating students with disabilities, the sector has largely been caught flat - footed.

As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union), complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).

Stock market gains and losses tend to occur in short bursts, so it's all too easy for market timers to be caught flat - footed.

Companies like Activision, EA and Capcom have been caught flat footed.

Gavin is caught flat - footed, with no response.

Utilities should consider a strategy that deploys cheaper power generation technologies to minimise the risk of being caught flat - footed by regulators, should regulation catch up with prevailing economics.

While the financial world was caught flat footed, the Central Powers fully expected the invasion of Serbia to trigger either a general war or a break up of the Triple Entente.

However, many are caught flat - footed when their organization experiences a threat that compromises the integrity of corporate data, says Kroman, whose practice is focused on intellectual property and information technology.

In a new letter addressed to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Hawaii's Brian Schatz asked the commission to confirm that it won't be caught flat - footed during Wednesday's net neutrality Day of Action.

Birnbaum said it's important for REALTORS ® to stay engaged, because «you don't want to be caught flat - footed if Congress overreacts,» which it often does when it legislates, Birnbaum said.

No one wants to be caught flat - footed if Congress decides to act quickly with tax reform.»

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And it was caught entirely flat - footed by Chevron's deft stoking of anti-Chinese sentiment.

«I think the Harper government was caught a little bit flat - footed when these bids were made,» he says.

Whether you accidentally sent your boss a NSFW email intended for your boyfriend, got a little too rowdy at the company picnic, or were caught in a flat - out lie (cough cough, Ryan Lochte), it's important to make efforts to repair your damaged professional reputation.

Also, while vertebrae are often in the shadow of the muscles that support them, the sacrum is a broad, triangular and flat bone above the cleavage of the buttocks and will catch the light, dividing the spine - shadow from the butt crack.

The sermon is uninspiring, the congregation is asleep, but suddenly the poet catches a glimpse of something beyond the ordinary, flat experience of worship in a «place [in which] the Good News... dropped down some black hole.»

Most pulpit theology, it is held, has never even caught up to neo-orthodoxy, is suspicious alike of John A. T. Robinson's Honest to God and Joseph Fletcher's Situation Ethics, and simply says a flat No to the recent radical theologies without understanding the problem they are trying, however ineffectively, to solve.

They were just flat on their jumpers over the past 15 minutes and Team Purimetla was able to catch - up and grab a lead down the stretch.

Privately, he said last week that he would ask Kotite to put «more of the plays I like» in the game plan — plays that have Byars going in motion and catching balls in the flat, plays in which the tight end is the primary receiver.

Give MN an opportunity in central / defensive midfield and give Chambers and Holding a run together at centre back in a flat back four system with our fullback first priority being to defend.Too often we find both our fullback s caught upfield when we get hit on the break.If Bellerin is upfield Monreal should not be.Defensive planning?Just what is Bould contributing?

Catching a Ducks team flat - footed is their best hope.

Randy Moss was so fast for a man his size, he was constantly beating CBs deep and could flat out catch balls straight over you.

6» 0 flat with a piss - poor vertical means he can never be relied on to win contested catches in the NFL.

But Wolves soon took control as Derby were caught completely flat - footed when Wolves central defender Wily Boly lofted the ball over the defence from the halfway line.

He's been caught flat - footed 2 or 3 times now.

Plus, the option is still there to move the PnP around their bedroom, which can help prevent flat spots on a baby's head by catching the baby's attention on different sides and angles.

-- Flat nipples (what was left of them, that is)-- All those pretty BF - ing brochures skipped neatly around the fact that I would be the one to carry ALL of the sleep deprivation burden, while my husband would be catching full nights of sleep.

They can catch a great nap because of three different reclining positions available, including a deep, 149 - degree recline that is nearly flat.